It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.
So this guy is now S3. All of S3.
@jonty this is fiiiine. bluesky is filled with very smart people and therefore they don’t need to participate in open standard groups before they just invent their own!
@jesseplusplus @jonty this is why they’re doing a closed beta, to find and fix these issues.
do you think Mastodon etc never had bugs, even bad ones?
@thomasfuchs @jesseplusplus @jonty Mastodon is open source and is based on open standards that much of the already existing web uses. Bluesky throws all of that out the window for a subpar experience and limited user freedom (I haven't seen their source code anywhere for their clients).
@thomasfuchs It's a funny bug. I'm not one for cheap dunks on devs, but this was clearly a security issue with solid prior art (imagine if Let's Encrypt let me claim S3!), so I'm a little ok with a bit of dunking.
@thomasfuchs @jesseplusplus @jonty It's not just a "bug", it's a failure of their entire identity model that shows how badly they failed to think it through. There's no fix for this without a manual list or a total rethink.
@thomasfuchs @jesseplusplus @jonty ActivityPub is standardized. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
@thomasfuchs @jesseplusplus @jonty
Mastodon didn't just do things as they went, it's based on ActivityPub which was in development at W3C for quite a while. This was a group effort
@thomasfuchs @jesseplusplus @jonty it's just a shame that they're having to solve a lot of problems ActivityPub has already solved by rolling their own protocol.
That's where a lot of the goodwill snark on here comes from IMO. Of course, there's plenty of ill-will snark as well.
@thomasfuchs @jesseplusplus @jonty Bugs aside, I thought the terms of service forbid screenshots of sky-toots